Experimental Facilities

Systems, Material and Structural Health (SMASH) Lab

Utah State University’s Systems, Materials, and Structural Health (SMASH) Laboratory, located at 1560 Canyon Rd, Logan, UT, is the main structural testing facility on Utah State University’s campus. Built in 2009, the SMASH lab is a 5,000 ft2 testing facility.

Major Equipment:

  • 60 ft. by 24 ft. strong floor
  • an L-shaped permanent strong wall
  • a load frame designed to withstand 1200 kips of shear as well several smaller load frames,
  • Two 20 ton overhead cranes.
  • 40 channel data acquisition
  • MTS 110 kip servo hydraulic actuator
  • four 600 kip, 12 inch stroke rams
  • A refurbished Tinius Olsen 300 kip universal testing

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering lab

Broadband Seismometers
  • CPT Rigs and Cones
    • 3 Pagani TG 63-150 CPT rigs
    • 2 15cm^2 Adara seismic CPT cones (courtesy of ConeTec)
    • Other custom push-in sensors and sources
  • Broadband Seismometers
    • 10 Nanometrics Trillium compact 120s seismometers
    • 10 Nanometrics Pegasus digitizers
  • Nodal Stations
    • 90, SmartSolo IGU-16HR-3C nodal stations
  • Seismographs and Geophones
    • Geometrics Geode 24-ch seismograph
    • 24 vertical & 24 horizontal 4.5-Hz geophones
  • Borehole Sensors
    • 2 Geostuff BHG-2 wall-lock borehole geophones
CPT Rigs and Cones Nodal Stations Seismographs and Geophones Borehole Sensors